High Voltage - Togetherness
Release Date: 1983
Label: H.T. Records
1. Togetherness
2. Togetherness (instrumental)
High Voltage - Electrifying
Release Date: 1985
Label: HT Records
1. Electrifying
2. Junkanoo-oo-oo
3. The Crow (Ring Play)
4. Togetherness (Remix)
5. Action
6. Old Days
7. Darling
8. Thanks But No Thanks
Junkanoo
Release date: 1992
Label: Big Beat Records
Back To The Island
Junk Junkanoo
Funky Nassau
Island Boy
Mama Lay Lay Lay
Gin And Coconut Water (Jelly)
Home Sweet Home
Mo' Junkanoo
Let Your Body Move To The Rhythm
Land Of The Sea And Sun
Kalik
Release date: 1994
Label: Big Beat Records (hip hop/dance)
911
Sunny Day, (Just A)
O-Yea-O
Dancing In The Moonlight
Oh, Father - (theme from "My Father, The Hero")
Having Some Fun (Kickin' In The Sunshine)
Can't Stop Thinking About You - (with Andrea Martin)
Dance To The Junkanoo
Crazy Over You
Secret Hideaway
I'm Walking
Back To The Island - (coconut club mix)
Here We Go Again Release Date: 1996
Label: Toy Factory
Island Life
Break My Stride
Where Do We Go From Here
Beach Baby
Mother Moon Father Sun
Here We Go Again
Le Ma Go
Eternal Love
Good To You
Work It Over
Let's Have A Good Time
I Like What I Like
Release date: 1997
Label: Mercury
Whine'D
I Like What I Like
That's The Way I Get Down
Beautiful Girl
Only Lonely
Heart
Jump In
Living On Sunshine
Bounce
Follow The Sun
Gotta Move On
01. Funky Nassau
02. (Just A) Sunny Day
03. Here We Go Again
04. Beach Baby
05. That's The Way I Get Down
06. Love Really Hurts
07. Love 4 Real
08. Dancing In The Moonlight
09. Beautiful Girl
10. Back To The Island
11. Island Life
12. Living On Sunshine
Doong Spank
Release date: 1998
Label: Mercury
Exuma's Reincarnation
Double Lovin' - (featuring Reiss)
Come Down Baby
Mash De Roach
Sunflower
Salvation
Forever By Your Side
Playing Hard To Get
I'll Be There
Kokomo
Best of
June 21, 2000
Label: Polygram Int'l [IMPORT]
Hooked On A Feelin'
Kokomo
Love Really Hurts
Mash De Roach
Keep On Dancin'
Salvation
That's The Way I Get Down
2 Zero O-O
Double Lovin'
Beautiful Girl
She Shake It
Love 4 Real
Back To The Island (Part 2)
Living On Sunshine (28th Street Crew Radio Mix)
Hooked On A Feelin' (Remix)
Hooked On A Feelin' (Instrumental)
YOU ALL DAT Release date: 2000
Label: Unknown
You All Dat (Radio)
You All Dat (Berman Brothers Remix)
You're Mine
(Plus "You All Dat" Video)
Best Years Of Our Lives
Release Date: 2001
Label: Sony Int'l
Best Years Of Our Lives (Radio Edit Version)
Best Years Of Our Lives (Pablo Flores Club Mix)
Is It You (I Have Loved) (Album Version)
Best Years Of Our Lives (Video)
2 Zero 0-0
Release date: 2001
Label: Mercury
Hooked On A Feelin'
Keep On Dancin'
You All Dat
She Shake It
2 Zero 0-0
Carnival
It Doesn't Matter
Thinkin' Of You
Watch Ya Sef
Party All By Myself
Hometown Girl
Back To The Island - (Part 2)
Move It Like This
Release date: 2002
Label: S-Curve
01 . Move It Like This
02 . Put The Lime In The Coconut
03 . Normal
04 . I Thank Heaven
05 . Best Years Of Our Lives
06 . Break Away
07 . Rich In Love
08 . Giddyup
09 . Blow Your Mind
10 . We Rubbin'
11 . I Just Want To Fool Around
12 . Wave, The
13 . Move It Like This - (Shake It Like That mix)
Greatest Movie Hits
Release date: 2002
Label: EMI-Capitol Entertainment Prop.
Who Let The Dogs Out
Best Years Of Our Lives
Move It Like This
Accident
Crocodile Rock
Scooby D
You All Dat
Get Your Party On
My Man Stanley
Get Your Head In The Game
Rat Race
You Can Get It
Oh, Father
Who Let The Dogs Out
Release date: 2002
Label: S-Curve
Who Let The Dogs Out
You All Dat
Get Ya Party On
Getting Hotter
Summer Of Love
You Can Get It
It's All In The Mind
Where Did I Go Wrong
You're Mine
What's Up, Come On
Shake It Mamma
Who Let The Dogs Out - (Barking Mad mix)
You All Dat - (Dance mix)
The Definitive Baha Men (The Early Years) Release Date: Unknown
Record Label - Atlantic
Disc 1
911
Sunny Day, (Just A)
O-Yea-O
Dancing In The Moonlight
Oh, Father
Having Some Fun (Kickin' In The Sunshine)
Can't Stop Thinking About You
Dance To The Junkanoo
Crazy Over You
Secret Hideaway
I'm Walking
Back To The Island (coconut club mix)
Disc 2
Back To The Island
Junk Junkanoo
Funky Nassau
Island Boy
Mama Lay Lay Lay
Gin And Coconut Water (Jelly)
Home Sweet Home
Mo' Junkanoo
Let Your Body Move To The Rhythm
Land Of The Sea And Sun
Footy's Wing Ding
October 24, 2000
Label: Crescent Moon
01 . Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me) - Blessed Union Of Souls
02 . So Far Away - Nine Days
03 . Todo Lo Que Soy - Carlos Ponce
04 . I Take It Back - Daniel Rene
05 . Don't Go - No Authority
06 . I Like It - Mandy Moore
07 . Don't Stop - Gloria Estefan
08 . Stop - Jon Secada (Pablo Flores radio edit)
09 . Tell Me Lies - Inner Circle 10 . Get Ya Party On - Baha Men
Now That's What I Call Music! 10
Release date: 2002
Label: Epic
01 . Overprotected - Britney Spears (Darkchild remix, radio edit)
02 . Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue
03 . Escape - Enrique Iglesias
04 . I've Got You - Marc Anthony (Ric Wake version, longer radio edit)
05 . Girlfriend - N Sync/Nelly (The Neptunes remix)
06 . I'm Gonna Be Alright - Jennifer Lopez/Nas (Track Masters remix)
07 . Don't Say Goodbye - Paulina Rubio 08 . Move It Like This - Baha Men
09 . More Than A Woman - Aaliyah
10 . Uh Huh - B2K (radio edit)
11 . Always On Time - Ja Rule/Ashanti
12 . Sugarhigh - Jade Anderson (radio edit)
13 . Halfcrazy - Musiq
14 . Underneath Your Clothes - Shakira
15 . Thousand Miles, A - Vanessa Carlton
16 . New Day Has Come, A - Celine Dion (radio remix)
17 . We Are All Made Of Stars - Moby
18 . First Date - Blink 182
19 . Stillness of Heart - Lenny Kravitz
20 . How You Remind Me - Nickelback
Disney Mania Vol. 1: Pop
Release date: 2002
Label: Disney
01 . Some Day My Prince Will Come - Anastacia
02 . Under The Sea - A*Teens
03 . You'll Be In My Heart - Usher
04 . When You Wish Upon A Star - N'Sync
05 . Colors Of The Wind - Ashanti
06 . I Wanna Be Like You - Smash Mouth
07 . Part Of Your World - Jessica Simpson
08 . I Just Can't Wait To Be King - Aaron Carter
09 . Can You Feel The Love Tonight - S Club 10 . Hakuna Matata - Baha Men
11 . Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room, The - Hilary Duff
12 . Beauty And The Beast - Jump 5
13 . Kiss The Girl - No Secrets
14 . Reflection - Christina Aguilera
15 . Circle Of Life - Ronan Keating
The music of Baha Men is a mixture of the junkanoo rhythms found in the festival music of The Bahamas blended with pop, rhythm & blues, and rap music. Their biggest hit to date "Who Let The Dogs Out" although written by a West Indian Anslem Douglas deviated from the original soca rhythms from Trinidad in which it was originally recorded. This song, because of its rhythm is viewed as 'not Bahamian" by many Bahamians.
Although criticism arose over this composition, it however took Baha Men to the top of the charts in the year 2002. In addition, Baha Men takes full advantage of the use of other familiar pre-recorded hit songs such as "Kokomo", "Dancing In The Moonlight" among other songs from popular disco craze bands like KC & The Sunshine Band. Baha Men has worked their way to the fore of the Bahamian music scene not only with the integration of the junkanoo sound, but in their craftiness in diversification of their total musical presentation.
You can find amidst their styles, hip-hop, R & B, pop, disco, and funk. The experience of the senior members within the group bring with them the sound of yesterday fused with the new generation of sounds and styles of today. The song that stands out as classic Bahamian is "Back To The Island". This song that was originally recorded by Ronnie Butler revived the Bahamian sound and did much in re-instating the use of junkanoo in the music of The Bahamas.
With the production of a colorful video, Baha Men also raised the bar in the presentation of their performance experience. For these few reasons , I chose "Back To The Island as a feature song for this analysis.
Because of the rhythmic complexities found in the music of the Caribbean, I'm inclined to use cut time meter when notating this music. This meter deals very effectively in the ease of reading the music. Common time can be used, but will however prove more challenging with the use of sixteenth rhythms throughout the music.
The example below therefore must be counted in two in order to follow the form of the piece. Furthermore, keeping in mind that this song represents early Bahamian calypso, the chord progression used is simple I, IV, V accompanied with themes and motifs that re-occur featuring the acoustic guitar in the interlude section in between each verse.
The use of the goatskin drums and cowbells brings alive the flavor of Bay Street junkanoo festivities which commonly takes place during the Christmas holiday season. Another point worthy of mention is the use of the wax paper on a hair comb in the introduction and breaks of the song. This tradition is rarely seen today although it was quite common in the early days of Bahamian music.
The fusion of the popular hip-hop beat of the late 90' is quite prevalent as a backdrop for the junkanoo which drives the rhythmic pulse of this particular piece of music.
Click play to hear "Back To The Island"
Wax paper & comb fanfare followed by -
| 16 bar introduction |
A - Section | 8 bar chorus |
B - Section | 8 (16) bar instrumental interlude (guitar) |
